Caro-Kann Two Knights Variation

I just watched this and it has reinforced my opinion that the Two Knights variation is very underrated at the club level. Grandmasters tend to either ignore it completely in their books or only write a few pages that barely teaches anything on it.

It is a minefield for black. There are so many traps where black is getting checkmated in under 20 moves. Even if black knows and avoids all of them, black only manages to reach a middlegame where he is about equal.

Caro-Kann: Two Knights variation opening traps

This is true for almost every opening. There is no reputable opening that leads to an advantage for black without mistakes from the player with the white pieces.

@KevinOSh - 

All of the books that you have read and/or are reading are very good.....I have recommended them all here, including Weeramantry's excellent book...

Good Chess Books for Beginners and Beyond...

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/good-chess-books-for-beginners-and-beyond

Also FYI.  Christof Sielecki's newest (being published soon) opening repertoire book - "Keep It Simple For Black" - is a complete opening repertoire for Black where the featured defense against 1.e4 is the Caro-Kann, including coverage of the Two Knights variation.  The book is also now available as a course on Chessable.  If it is of interest you can get a sense of the contents of the book by checking out this marketing blurb for the Chessable course....

https://www.chessable.com/keep-it-simple-for-black/course/92793/

Thanks this is a great game. I found there is this GM King video on it

He is talking about middle game plans in the Caro Kann, not about the opening moves.